A young man called me about a week ago and wanted a custom pen with a cigar band. He brought it by the house. He said he had been saving it for a couple of years. It was the band from the last cigar his dad smoked before he died. Don't know how he kept up with it or why, but he wanted it on one of my pens like he had seen in one of the stores.
Just a simple little band from a Partagas cigar, nothing rare or special, but the kind of cigar that someone would smoke as a regular smoke. It is an alt casein top and light colored amboyna burl on the bottom. Earlier folks were discussing how many coats of CA to use. This has an undercoat of about 5 thin CA and then is finished over the band with about 20 to 25 thin, put on very thin. I wanted to make sure his special band was protected.
Since he came to me by way of a store, I am delivering it to the store tomorrow and the customer is going to pick it up there. That way the store owner makes his cut, but since I would have never gotten the customer without him, I thought it was the right thing to do.
I also am chasing after Doc with all his ebony and alt casein combo pens and such.
the other picture is of an Alt Ivory and Alt Ebony blank from Ed and Dawn. I might package them as a set for sale. That way the customer could have 4 pens. All Ivory, all ebony, ivory top & ebony bottome and ebony top and ivory bottom. thought that would be kinda cool. I stole the idea from someone on the forums that did that with two cambridge kits a while back.
Just a simple little band from a Partagas cigar, nothing rare or special, but the kind of cigar that someone would smoke as a regular smoke. It is an alt casein top and light colored amboyna burl on the bottom. Earlier folks were discussing how many coats of CA to use. This has an undercoat of about 5 thin CA and then is finished over the band with about 20 to 25 thin, put on very thin. I wanted to make sure his special band was protected.
Since he came to me by way of a store, I am delivering it to the store tomorrow and the customer is going to pick it up there. That way the store owner makes his cut, but since I would have never gotten the customer without him, I thought it was the right thing to do.
I also am chasing after Doc with all his ebony and alt casein combo pens and such.
the other picture is of an Alt Ivory and Alt Ebony blank from Ed and Dawn. I might package them as a set for sale. That way the customer could have 4 pens. All Ivory, all ebony, ivory top & ebony bottome and ebony top and ivory bottom. thought that would be kinda cool. I stole the idea from someone on the forums that did that with two cambridge kits a while back.
